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"Revolution specs..?"

You've more then likly sread this somewhere already but...


Two 1.8ghz G5 based cpus
600mhz ATI gpu with 12mb onboard
128mb 1tsram
256mb dram

These specs came from What I hear are good sources, that where on the nail with 360 /PS3 info. If they are near the truth then it doesent sound that bad really (for the guts of it anyway). But one thing, if ATI have made that graphics part for consoles why isnt the 360 using it?

Good point. Whats the point of all this power if its not used right? The GC is a powerful little system but apart from ninty who else pushes the cube?

Lets hope that the next generation brings a more level playing field with games using the power of the systems, rather then just being thrown together and kicked out the door.

It does sound like them, the Gamecube is a very clever piece of kit. But what it can do and what it does do are 2 very different things.

mmmmmmmm.....for some reason the specs I posted would seem more real. Im going to find the site I got them off and try and do one of them link things that everyone does here (never done it before).

I would love ninty to make a console like that, with all that new tech in there like the PPU and duel GPU with mb falling out of every nook and cranny, but it really doesent sound like them!

And what price would they put on something like that? Surley they would losing £ to sell that kind of spec at a decent price, one that can also compete with the 360 and if its out before the PS3.

Loads of crappy numbers?

This is not what I buy consoles for.

It's not as if Factor 5 are working with Nintendo anymore.

"each core will have 256mb of GDDR4"

1) GDDR4 is only 'on the horizon' and is not yet available...
2) do these people know how expensive 512mb of GDDR3 is?
3) R520 does not support unified shader architecture, and therefore won't have 28 unified pipelines...more likely 8 vertex/24 pixel. Therefore it can't be a 'modified' R520, it would be a completely different chip.

And by the way, all this talk of '500MHz grahics chip' blah blah blah is utterly meaningless. Go play a PC game on a 500MHz 6600GT in 2048x1536, then play it on a 430MHz 7800GTX and come back to tell me which one had a framerate of more than 10.

"Revolution will support a PPU chip (Physical Processing Chip). There will be 32 MB’s of its own RAM, which will link to the CPU and GPU and the Controller."

ha ha ha ha.

I think he means "Physics Processing Unit" Which aren't even released to the general public yet.

but he works for Factor 5, so maybe i'm wrong!

Yeah, I think it will have 2 RN520's too! Even though the R520 isn't even out yet and it will cost about £400, and it's a PC chip.

that whole thing reads like complete bs mate.

More revolution specs for you. This might actually be true, as the person works for Factor 5. He posted the x-box 360 specs before it was officialy announced, so it could be true:

[URL]http://www.xsorbit1.com/users/cubeeurope/index.cgi?board=rev&action=display&num=1123837413[/URL]